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Imaging Systemic Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease

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Abstract

Parkinson's disease is now widely recognized to be a multisystem disorder affecting the brain and peripheral autonomic nerves. Extensive pathology is present in both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system and the intrinsic gastrointestinal plexuses in patients. Autonomic pathology and symptoms such as constipation can predate the clinical diagnosis by years or decades. Imaging studies have contributed greatly to our understanding of Parkinson's disease but focused primarily on imaging cerebral pathology. However, given the importance of understanding the nature, chronology, and functional consequences of peripheral pathology, there has been renewed interest in imaging peripheral organs in Parkinson's disease. Suitable imaging tools can be divided into two types: radiotracer studies that directly estimate loss of sympathetic or parasympathetic nerve terminals, and imaging modalities to quantitate dysphagia, gastric emptying, esophageal and intestinal transit times, and anorectal dyssynergia. In this review, we summarize current knowledge about peripheral imaging in Parkinson's disease.


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Author(s): Borghammer P, Knudsen K, Brooks DJ

Publication type: Review

Publication status: Published

Journal: Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Year: 2016

Volume: 16

Issue: 6

Print publication date: 01/06/2016

Online publication date: 12/04/2016

Acceptance date: 01/01/1900

ISSN (print): 1528-4042

ISSN (electronic): 1534-6293

Publisher: SPRINGER

URL: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/s11910-016-0655-4

DOI: 10.1007/s11910-016-0655-4


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